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I did it! It took me just over 2:30, which I was happy with. We were lucky with the weather and there were around 19000 runners! Thank you for all your support. I didn't ache too much.
Thank you!
I completed the Great South Run (10 miles) in October to try and raise money for the Alzheimer's Society, but didn't raise my target amount, so I've entered the Reading Half Marathon in March to try and raise some more cash. Please help.
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Pam
I would just like to share a few statistics that made me want to help raise funds...
There are 820,000 people living with dementia in the UK today, a number forecast to rise rapidly as the population ages.
Just 2.5% of the government's medical research budget is spent on dementia research, while a quarter is spent on cancer research.
1 in 3 over 65s will die with some form of dementia.
820,000 people in the UK live with dementia.
Dementia costs the UK economy £23 billion per year. That is twice the cost of cancer (£12 billion per year), three times the cost of heart disease (£8 billion per year) and four times the cost of stroke (£5 billion).
Combined government and charitable investment in dementia research is 12 times lower than spending on cancer research. £590 million is spent on cancer research each year, while just £50 million is invested in dementia research. Heart disease receives £169 million per year and stroke research £23 million.
For every £1 million in care costs for the disease, £129,269 is spent on cancer research, £73,153 on heart disease research, £8,745 on stroke research and just £4,882 on dementia research.